Christine Temperess Wharton

24 January 1882–1 July 1959 (Age 77)
Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States

The Life Summary of Christine Temperess

When Christine Temperess Wharton was born on 24 January 1882, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, her father, Elijah Wharton, was 38 and her mother, Etha Delinda Stewart, was 30. She married Amos Shorthorn West on 2 October 1899, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 July 1959, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Amos Shorthorn West
1867–1942
Christine Temperess Wharton
1882–1959
Marriage: 2 October 1899
Myrtle Ruth West
1900–1919
Delinda Elizabeth West
1902–1975
Mildred Nettie West
1905–1927
Infant Daughter West
1907–1907

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    2 October 1899Seattle, King, Washington, United States
    • Children

    (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
    Age 1
    The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
    1886
    Age 4
    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
    1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
    Age 21
    A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

    Name Meaning

    English:habitational name from any of various places called Wharton, in Westmorland, Cheshire, and Lincolnshire, or from Warton in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Warwickshire. The Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Cheshire and Warwickshire placenames derive from Old English wæfre ‘swamp, marshy ground’ + tūn. The Westmorland placename may derive from Old English hwearf ‘embankment, shore, wharf’ + tūn.perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, derived from the Old English personal name Wīgfrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Warton

    Sources (38)

    • Temperess Wharton in entry for Niyolte Ruth West, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
    • Christine Howe in household of Charles Howe, "United States Census, 1930"
    • Tempers Wharton, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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